Traveling through ancient times.

Jiang Yizhou was delayed in Mangshan for more than half a month. The main reason was that there were so many bandits and they hid deep inside, so it was impossible to eliminate them all with ordinary means.

We must rely on Xiao Tongzi.

Jiang Yizhou had just finished dealing with the situation inside, and when she came out, she met Wei Ke who came to look for her in a hurry.

To be honest, after Jiang Yizhou assigned Wei Ke to an independent department, they rarely met each other.

After a few months, Jiang Yizhou discovered that Wei Ke naturally had an inexplicable heroic aura, and beneath this aura of a superior was a gloomy anger that was ready to explode.

Wei Ke saw Jiang Yizhou at a glance and ran over quickly.

Jiang Yizhou asked in a low voice: "What happened?"

Wei Ke: "Master, our eight farms and a dozen grain stations in Ezhou have all been dispersed..."

Ezhou? Ezhou again.

Before this, the new emperor had already thoroughly investigated the Ezhou disaster relief case many years ago, and had a number of officials’ property confiscated or executed.

Several of Uncle Liu Sichang's grandchildren are also preparing to continue to apply for the imperial examinations.

Jiang Yizhou only cared for him secretly and gave him help.

On the surface, she rarely even went back to the Jiang family's old house in recent years, and she had never visited Uncle Liu's house in person.

The main reason is that people’s words are scary.

Although people outside have become more accepting and convinced of Tianzhuang and her as the head of the Jiang family, the people in Fusong Town still have deep-rooted perceptions of the original owner and the original moral principles of male superiority and female inferiority.

In the eyes of these people: No matter how successful you are as a woman and how much you benefit the world, they only see that your husband and son are dead, and you are a widow.

People are very taboo about such lonely people. They don't welcome such people to visit their homes, lest they bring bad luck.

Jiang Yizhou didn't know whether Liu Sichang's family was like this, but in order to avoid being criticized by people around them, she chose not to be too ostentatious.

It’s enough to know that Uncle Liu and his family are no longer troubled by the shadow of being implicated, and are living better and better lives.

At this moment, Jiang Yizhou could not imagine that in Ezhou, the imperial court had already launched a heavy attack, but those people still dared!

"How could this happen?" She had deployed guards and thugs in every place, and ordinary people were no match for them.

Even if there are dozens or hundreds of people who want to cause trouble, they can't.

Wei Ke said, "I don't know where the news came from that the natural disaster will continue to worsen. The grain prices in various places have nearly doubled. The grain stations we opened along the way have kept the grain prices unchanged, so they are overcrowded every day and the supply cannot meet the demand. But we can still maintain it, but later we found that those people who line up to buy food every day are basically those people..."

Jiang Yizhou followed up by asking, "And then?"

Wei Ke, "Then I had people follow these people and found out that they were all hired by the landlords. They bought grain from us at a low price, then handed it over to the local gentry and sold it at a high price. Because those people occupied the grain station from morning to night, many of the real disaster victims couldn't even squeeze in."

Jiang Yizhou hummed softly. She had expected this result a long time ago and asked, "Before, I asked you to use the real-name system, and each person was limited to 50 kilograms of food per month..."

Wei Ke: "We did exactly that, but there was a problem when we asked these people to register. They just lifted things up and started to gather and cause trouble, and then more and more people gathered... In the end..."

Jiang Yizhou thought of something and asked, "By the way, how is Mr. He?"

He Jimin was transferred to Ezhou as the prefect a few years ago, and he made great efforts to find evidence against the bad guys in the disaster relief case.

Wei Ke's face was even more angry: "Lord He wanted to arrest those troublemakers, but he was besieged by the so-called militia organized by them and was almost beaten to death. In the end, the people from the Tianzhuang Grain Station and the government office joined forces to break out of the siege and retreated to the county government office. But those people became even more agitated, and they said that this was evidence that our Tianzhuang Grain Station and the government were colluding to harm the people..."

Jiang Yizhou was shocked: "They dare to openly attack government officials?"

Wei Ke: "Those militiamen were organized by local clan tyrants. There were at least thousands of them, and they were all dressed as ordinary farmers. They shouted that the government had hidden grain and raised the price, leaving the people with no way to make a living... The rest of the people were coerced by so many people, so they also became part of the surging public opinion."

Jiang Yizhou nodded and understood.

She said to Wei Ke, "There are still a lot of supplies here. You stay here and take care of them. It would be best if you could transport them to the surrounding grain stations and farms and store them in the warehouse for emergency use."

Wei Ke responded: "What about you, Master?"

Jiang Yizhou: "Of course I have to go to Ezhou to take a look."

Speaking of the farms and grain stations she later opened across the country, she basically sent people there and never went there in person.

The same goes for Ezhou. It’s her first time there.

This place has just experienced a bloody massacre... It seems that it is impossible to peacefully transfer the vested interests of these powerful classes to the hands of ordinary people. Revolution is necessary.

After discussing with Wei Ke for a while, Jiang Yizhou rode directly to Ezhou.

Because of the vigorous promotion of cement in recent years and with the support of national power, the main transportation routes between provinces and counties are basically connected, so Jiang Yizhou rode on horseback along the official road and arrived in Ezhou in less than three days.

As soon as we entered Ezhou, although it was already late autumn, we inexplicably felt a hot-blooded murderous aura floating in the air.

The reason why the Viper Gang was able to kill several imperial officials who were investigating the disaster relief case but the case was eventually left unresolved was largely because the local power here was too strong, to the extent that any official who came here had to consider the opinions of the local powerful families.

Now, the new emperor first dealt with the officials involved in the incident, and took the opportunity to suppress the supporters of these powerful families in the court.

So they got anxious, and first contacted Zeng Wei and others in Mangshan, asking them to attack the caravan in the farm to divert attention, while they...

Jiang Yizhou was unable to connect the complicated and fragmented memories of Zeng Wei for a while, but Xiao Tongzi quickly sorted out the thoughts.

In other words, when these people felt that their interests and power were threatened, they banded together to deal with the Jiang family farm and grain station.

As for Ezhou, in addition to being connected with Mangshan, they also have dealings with the pirates because of the river connecting to the sea.

These bad guys, not only are they the parasites of this country, but they also collude with outsiders to harm their own country. They simply deserve to die!

Jiang Yizhou was filled with murderous intent. After checking the map, he planned to go to the government office where He Jimin was hiding... Before he arrived, he saw a fierce battle ahead.

The imperial court actually sent troops to suppress it?